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SamplingStrata: Optimal Stratification of Sampling Frames for Multipurpose Sampling Surveys

In the field of stratified sampling design, this package offers an approach for the determination of the best stratification of a sampling frame, the one that ensures the minimum sample cost under the condition to satisfy precision constraints in a multivariate and multidomain case. This approach is based on the use of the genetic algorithm: each solution (i.e. a particular partition in strata of the sampling frame) is considered as an individual in a population; the fitness of all individuals is evaluated applying the Bethel-Chromy algorithm to calculate the sampling size satisfying precision constraints on the target estimates. Functions in the package allows to: (a) analyse the obtained results of the optimisation step; (b) assign the new strata labels to the sampling frame; (c) select a sample from the new frame accordingly to the best allocation. Functions for the execution of the genetic algorithm are a modified version of the functions in the 'genalg' package. M.Ballin, G.Barcaroli (2020) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2004.09366> "R package SamplingStrata: new developments and extension to Spatial Sampling".

Version: 1.5-4
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0), memoise, doParallel, pbapply, SamplingBigData, glue, methods
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, formattable
Published: 2022-11-15
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SamplingStrata
Author: Giulio Barcaroli, Marco Ballin, Hanjo Odendaal, Daniela Pagliuca, Egon Willighagen, Diego Zardetto
Maintainer: Giulio Barcaroli <gbarcaroli at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/barcaroli/SamplingStrata/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://barcaroli.github.io/SamplingStrata/, https://github.com/barcaroli/SamplingStrata/
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: SamplingStrata citation info
Materials: NEWS
In views: OfficialStatistics
CRAN checks: SamplingStrata results

Documentation:

Reference manual: SamplingStrata.pdf
Vignettes: Optimization of sampling strata with the SamplingStrata package
Use of models in SamplingStrata
Spatial sampling with SamplingStrata

Downloads:

Package source: SamplingStrata_1.5-4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: SamplingStrata_1.5-4.zip, r-release: SamplingStrata_1.5-4.zip, r-oldrel: SamplingStrata_1.5-4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): SamplingStrata_1.5-4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): SamplingStrata_1.5-4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): SamplingStrata_1.5-4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): SamplingStrata_1.5-4.tgz
Old sources: SamplingStrata archive

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